[tyingq]

Supposedly they are adding things like polymorphic inline cache, garbage collection, threads, etc, that would make it more like a VM. Perhaps enough that Python, PHP, Ruby, or similar languages could run in WASM without downloading the whole runtime. That plus native DOM access might make the front end web as diverse as the back end web.

I'm curious whether the fragmentation that would bring on is a net add, or a net drain on the web as a whole.

[themihai]

I wouldn't say that fragmentation on the backend is a net drain as a whole...